Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Poland and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Funkadelic to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Evens,
The Trojans,
Ituana,
Godley & Creme,
X-101,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Flag,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
MC5,
Funkadelic,
Lakeside,
Joey Negro,
Radiohead,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Tremeloes,
T. Rex,
Albert Ayler,
Accadde A,
The Smoke,
X-Ray Spex,
Letta Mbulu,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Nico,
Chris Corsano,
Kool Moe Dee,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Motions,
Crispy Ambulance,
Janne Schatter,
Banda Bassotti,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Interpol,
Sister Nancy,
Underground Resistance,
Soul II Soul,
Guru Guru,
John Lydon,
Bootsy Collins,
Lungfish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Slick Rick,
The Fortunes,
Main Source,
Mark Hollis,
Stockholm Monsters,
Judy Mowatt,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Moebius,
Ralphi Rosario,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Section 25,
John Holt,
Franke,
The Doors,
Michelle Simonal,
Hashim,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.